Do you have competitors? In your business, in your life, in your hobbies?
And, if so, do you actually “cheer them on” because it’s “all just a bit of friendly fun?”
I ask because I don’t.
I’ve found I can’t.
I’m not sure if it’s my brain – the way it’s wired – or something else.
Maybe it’s too-close proximity to feelings of imposter syndrome.
Maybe being a Highly Sensitive Person.
But whatever it is, I can’t view competition as “friendly.”
If even an inkling of competition enters into a situation, it becomes stressful, urgent, and personal. I want to win at all costs and feel like garbage if I don’t.
And I hate all those feelings.
So, I don’t view those people in my life as competition at all. I always and only think of them (of you) as colleagues, as friends—as co-adventurers on the journey.
I’m rooting for your success as much as my own. I’m rooting for our success.
And anything that would bring you down – that would make you lose or lose out – hurts me. It’s as if it were bringing me down, making me lose.
Which, I suppose, is an “abundance mindset.”
It’s the idea that “a rising tide raises all boats.”
It’s why I’m all in on collaboration.
You?
Never liked Monopoly,
James
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